Inside Foreign AidJohns Hopkins University Press, 1975 - 140 pages Monograph on development aid, with special reference to the role of USA aid programmes and development projects - shows how organizational environment and behaviour determine many of the shortcomings of both bilateral aid (e.g. 'Aid') and multilateral aid (e.g. World Bank, IDB, UNDP (role of UN). Bibliography pp. 129 to 135 and references. |
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... lending — though program lending receives explicit attention on pages 96 and 97. The IDB does not make program loans , and most IBRD activity is concentrated in project lending , with less than 5 percent of its 1974 commitments in ...
... lending — though program lending receives explicit attention on pages 96 and 97. The IDB does not make program loans , and most IBRD activity is concentrated in project lending , with less than 5 percent of its 1974 commitments in ...
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... lending and the resulting slowness in resource flow and bias toward larger projects . To deal with the problem , they have recommended a streamlining of procedures or , less commonly , a partial or complete abandonment of the project ...
... lending and the resulting slowness in resource flow and bias toward larger projects . To deal with the problem , they have recommended a streamlining of procedures or , less commonly , a partial or complete abandonment of the project ...
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... lending institution . Much of the initiative and work involved in generating public projects in developing countries has been transferred gradually from its usual location — a country's public sector institutions — to the lending ...
... lending institution . Much of the initiative and work involved in generating public projects in developing countries has been transferred gradually from its usual location — a country's public sector institutions — to the lending ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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